OF GARDENS BY LORD BACON 



thingismorepleasanttotheeyethangreen grass .Shade 

 kept finely shorn; the other, because it will give 

 you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may 

 go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to 

 enclose the garden. But because the alley will 

 be long, and in great heat of the year, or day, you 

 ought not to buy the shade in the garden by 

 going in the sun through the green, therefore 

 youare,ofeithersidethegreen,toplantacovert 

 alley, upon carpenters' work, about twelve feet 

 in height, by which you may go in shade, into 

 the garden. As for the making of knots, or fig- 

 ures, with divers coloured earths, that they may 

 lie under the windows of the house, on that side 

 which the garden stands, they be but toys : you 

 may see as good sights, many times, in tarts. 

 The garden is best to be square; encompassed, 

 on all the four sides, with a stately arched hedge. 

 The arches to be upon pillars, of carpenters' 

 work, of some ten feet high, and six feet broad: 

 and the spaces between, of the same dimension, 

 with the breadth of the arch. Over the arches, 

 let there be an entire hedge, of some four feet 

 high, framed also upon carpenters' work : and 

 over every arch, upon the upper hedge, a little 

 turret, with a belly, enough to receive a cage of 

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